Tektronix reviews

Regular “house cleaning” in jettisoning senior staff every Q4. It’s been this way for the last 8 years I’ve been here. Fortive accounting teams run the business and heavily tax the businesses within Tek. Not the typical sort of high tech engineering run place. Not certain if this is good or bad, it’s just an observation. Not a place where you can settle and raise a family, given Tek’s tenancy to “strongly incentivize your departure” if you advance to senior levels. Intense vertical compression of the company, has led to a LOT of downsizing and is constantly re-organizing it’s remaining teams. Pretty much bank on a new manager every 10 months. Very little continuity in projects, with the priority of what you work on changing on a daily basis. Nearly impossible to see the final results of your work, as you will be moved to another program before one completes your current project. Engineering resources are a constant “shell game”.

Tektronix continues to feed off the carcass of its legacy technologies. Many of its platforms have been dying a slow death due to intentional neglect. Many of the older engineers stifle the career development of younger engineers to protect themselves. Who can blame them, however, with the constant threat of layoffs. Tektronix continues to undermine itself by focusing on expenses and yet expects the tightened resources not to impact R&D and sales efforts. For instance, the sales teams are constantly fighting for demo equipment and engineering teams never have enough prototypes. But, the inventory numbers look great!